A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being
Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French & Africana Studies and Faculty Director of the Barnard Digital Humanities Center. Her teaching and research interests include francophone literature, particularly that of Haiti and the French Antilles; colonialism and postcolonialism; and sub-Saharan francophone African cinema. She advises students in French, Africana Studies, Comparative Literature, and Human Rights.
She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (Duke UP 2020) and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (Liverpool UP 2010). She has published articles in the French Review, Small Axe, Research in African Literatures, the Journal of Postcolonial Writings, and the Journal of Haitian Studies, among others, and has coedited several works, including New Narratives of Haiti for Transition magazine (2013), Translating the Caribbean for Small Axe (2015), Marie Vieux Chauvet: Paradoxes of the Postcolonial Feminine for Yale French Studies (2016), The Haiti Exception (2016), and The Haiti Reader (2020). Glover has translated several works of fiction and nonfiction from French to English, notably Frankétienne’s Ready to Burst (2014), Marie Chauvet’s Dance on the Volcano (2016), René Depestre’s Hadriana in All My Dreams (2017), and Françoise Vergès’s The Wombs of Women: Capitalism, Racialization, Feminism (2019). She is an awardee of the PEN/Heim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, and the New York Public Library Cullman Center.
She is the founding coeditor of archipelagos | a journal of Caribbean digital praxis, the founding co-organizer of “The Caribbean Digital,” and the founding codirector of the digital humanities project In the Same Boats: Toward an Afro-Atlantic Intellectual Cartography. In 2018–2019 she was a resident fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, France, where she began work on her new book project, “For the Love of Revolution: René Depestre and the Poetics of a Radical Life.” She is also working on a book of essays, “ ‘Blackness’ in French.”
Sponsored by Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, Department of French, Department of African American Studies, and Whitney Humanities Center
